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Kimbrough, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36722. It stands on James Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kimbrough quadrangle. It stands 92 feet above sea level.

Kimbrough within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

138 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Kimbrough between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,636 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Debris and open burning4.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Recreation and ceremony15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200927-1
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimbrough in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2021Flash FloodKimbrough-Willie Powell Road flooded near the intersection of Highway 162.

Every storm recorded in Wilcox County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Anne Manie1.4 miles9
Arlington2.0 miles9
Pine Hill3.9 miles7
MacMillan4.8 miles7
Lamison6.1 miles9
Sunny South6.2 miles8
Yellow Bluff6.9 miles7
Hestle7.9 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on KimbroughAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709434The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155123. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.